SnapStream Blog (staging)

It’s nine days and counting until the 2008 NAB Show and we’ve all been feeling the stress of getting everything in order before we head out to Las Vegas. To let off some steam, I came up with an idea to re-energize the troops. By incorporating the competitive spirit of SnapStream with baked goods, the 2008 Oven Mitt Extreme Throw Down Challenge was created. The task was simple, bring your best baked good along with your A-game on Friday, then we would do a tasting and judge each one. There would be three smaller awards (Most Original, Best Tasting, and Best Presentation) and one big award (Best in Show). The idea was received with enthusiasm and we had seven participants:

Zack - homemade pecan pie, homemade whip cream, and homemade sugar doodads

Melissa - homemade million dollar cake

Michael - some random pastry filled with pork (it was actually pretty good)

Mark - Chocolate Velvet Volcano Cake

Joel - Sweat Breads (Filipino pastry called Ensaymada)

Rob - Apple Cake

Rakesh - 7 layer dream bar (basically tons of sugar and butter)

Tom - Kroger store bought Coffee Cake with Pecans (cost $5.99 tax-free)

Joel cuts his dessert

Zack is putting together his pie presentation.

After we tasted all the baked goods. We cast our votes.

And the winners were:

Best in Show - Mark
Best Tasting - Rakesh (Once again sugar prevails.)
Most Original - Michael (Pork. Who’d of thought?)
Best Presentation - Zack (He spent way too much time… )

All in all I would have to say that the 2008 Oven Mitt Extreme Throw Down Challenge was a success!

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